Alumni Free Speech Advocacy at MIT
A Podcast Conversation with Wayne Stargardt and Peter Bonilla
For the past several years, The American Council of Trustees and Alumni has collaborated with the Alumni Free Speech Alliance (AFSA) to defend free expression, academic freedom, and viewpoint diversity on college campuses. With hundreds of alumni advocates across 27 institutions, AFSA represents a national movement empowering alumni to exert positive, meaningful influence on their alma maters. One of the most active groups to emerge from this movement is the MIT Free Speech Alliance (MFSA). As they support activities from on-campus debates to off-campus mobilization, MFSA members have proven to be both friends and ardent critics of their alma mater.
This fall, ACTA’s College Debates and Discourse Alliance curricular fellow, Dr. Bryan Paul, attended the MIT Free Speech Alliance’s annual conference in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he moderated a panel discussion with senior administrators from several institutions on strategies to improve the free speech culture on college campuses. He also recorded this interview with MFSA President Wayne Stargardt and MFSA Executive Director Peter Bonilla — a deep dive into the MFSA’s reform efforts at MIT and beyond.
Here’s a link to the podcast: Alumni Free Speech Advocacy at MIT: A Podcast Conversation with Wayne Stargardt and Peter Bonilla